The plot that led to the convictions Friday of Bridget Kelly , Christie's former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni , an executive at the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey, stemmed from Christie's political team's efforts to build bipartisan support they hoped would eventually help him in this year's presidential election.

The names of the service members have not been released yet, pending the notification of their families. Two US service members were killed in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, the US military said Thursday. Moreover, the Pentagon has made clear that it intends to keep permanent bases and thousands of troops in the country, which offer a strategic launching pad for operations in South Asia and the former Soviet republics of energy-rich Central Asia, as well as against both Russian Federation ...

The two lone bright spots for Democrats were in IL and Nevada, but those wins netted them only one seat. Top-grade recruits in red states in and Missouri to get them close. Mark Kirk in IL, according to a CNN projection. That race was always a challenge for Kirk, who won IL in the 2010 Tea Party wave in the mid-term elections.

The former German galloper, starting at 10/1, edged Ireland's Heartbreak City (18/1) after a stirring run at Flemington to give jockey Kerrin McEvoy his second Melbourne Cup , 16 years after his first. "Jeez, he traveled well", McEvoy said from the saddle. From barrier 23, the second-widest starting stall, Moreira weaved his way into a one-off position before the first turn and had his horse travelling beautifully with around 500 metres to go.

North Carolina Republican Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla in Miami. In Maryland, Democrat Chris Van Hollen was elected to his first term as a USA senator in the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Rod Whittemore, a Skowhegan Republican, appeared to be fending off challenger state Rep. Jeff McCabe, a Democrat also from Skowhegan. Rod Smith, winning by a margin of more than six percentage points.

But they fell short of the net gain of five seats they needed to win a majority, or even the four seats they needed to split the Senate 50-50. What remains unclear is how many seats they will collect. More significant, Trump failed to invest in the kind of political infrastructure - such as voter identification and turnout operations - that are typically led by a party's presidential candidate.

That number includes many Republicans who distanced themselves from him when allegations of sexual misconduct surface against Trump in recent weeks. Dow futures plummeted Tuesday night. Thousands of Clinton supporters who gathered outside the intended site of her election night party stared quietly at their smartphones. "This team has so much to be proud of.

Clinton called her Republican rival to concede but did not speak publicly about the stunning results. States like Colorado, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin are also potential game-changers. Four in 10 voters said they were hungry for change, and those voters overwhelmingly favoured Trump. "This county has had no hope", said Ratliff, who owns strip malls in an area badly beaten by the collapse of the coal industry.

He told the Sarasota crowd that "the system is rigged, but at least we know it". He claimed that "our country is a laughing stock all over the world". It remains to be seen how the Trump campaign will formally respond to the news, though campaign manager Kellyanne Conway has already gone after the Clinton campaign and surrogates like Newt Gingrich and Omarosa have insinuated that corruption is afoot.

As a vanguard of elite Iraqi counter-terror forces have made their hard-won advance into Mosul, the forces of the Kurdish Pershmerga have reported victories in the town of Bashiqa, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, Iraqi troops engaged in a fierce urban war with Daesh in Mosul's eastern neighbourhoods. However, Iraqi troops have been forced to retreat from the neighbourhood of Al-Karamah after ISlL fighters used a network of tunnels to surround them.

With Florida's 29 electoral votes, a win for Clinton would be a devastating blow early for the Republicans. Before Tuesday's voting, Clinton led Trump, 44% to 39% in the last Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll . Voters appeared to be anxious about the country's direction and were seeking a "strong leader who can take the country back from the rich and powerful", according to an early reading from the Reuters/Ipsos national Election Day poll.